“Leadership is about the team – the culture they keep and embrace, it’s about empathy for your customers, clients, employees and the communities where you do business, it’s about doing the right thing for the right reasons, being confident enough to take risks and responsible enough to think of those who your decisions and risks may affect.” – Kat Cole American businesswoman. She is the former Chief operating officer and president of North America for Focus Brands

“We educate women because it is smart. We educate women because it changes the world.” Drew Gilpin Faust American historian who was the 28th president of Harvard University, and the first woman to serve in that role.

“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” – Gloria Steinem. American feminist journalist and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Steinem was a columnist for New York magazine, and a co-founder of Ms. magazine.

“For women, financial independence is a matter of necessity.” ― Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz Professional, personal finance expert, and president of Charles Schwab Foundation

“The most successful entrepreneurs I know are optimistic. It’s part of the job description.” ― Caterina Fake American entrepreneur and businesswoman. She co-founded the websites Flickr in 2004 and Hunch in 2007.

“We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.” — Gloria Steinem American feminist journalist and social-political activist

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer.